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Portraits of Trajan

Here I will be collecting the surviving ancient portraits of Trajan, not including the many likenesses in relief on Trajan’s Column and other architectural monuments. They are listed alphabetically by town or city in which they currently reside.

I hope to have one day visited and photographed them all but in the meantime, in the spirit of the project, I hope you don’t mind if I have used your no-doubt excellent picture!

If you have more up-to-date information on the whereabouts of a particular portrait or if you know of a head, bust, statue or bronze that is missing – please let me know and I will add to the gallery.

Current Total: 104

Ankara – Bronze Tondo of Trajan, Anatolian Museum of Civilisations

Antalya – Antalya Museum

Antalya – Antalya Museum

Antalya – Antalya Museum

Athens – Agora Stoa Museum

Athens – Kanellopoulos Museum

Athens – National Archaeological Museum

Aquileia – Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Aquileia

Auch – Musée des Jacobins, Auch (Gers, France)

Auctioned at Christies 2009

Auctioned at Dimitris

Badajoz – Provincial Archaeology Museum (found in Regina Turdulorum)

Benevento – Museo del Sannio

Banca d’Italia Art Collection

Berlin – Altes Museum

Avignon – Lapidaire Museum

Berlin, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

Berlin – Pergamon Museum

Berlin – Pergamon Museum

Bonhams Auction 2010

Bonhams Auction 2014

Boston – Fogg Museum, Harvard University

Brussels – Royal Museums of Art and History (MRAH), Jubilee Park, Brussels.

Bucharest, National Museum of Romanian History (?)

Bucharest – Severeanu Collection

Cadiz – Museum of Cadiz, Spain

Cagliari – National Archaeological Museum

Chania – Archaeological Museum of Chania, Crete

Chichester – Novium Museum (Bosham Head)

Christies Auction – possibly modern.

Coimbra – Cryptoporticus of Aeminium, Portugal

Cologne – Römisch-Germanischen Museum

Copenhagen – Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen – Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen – Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen – Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen – Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen – Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Cornell University – Johnson Museum, New York. (Plaster cast of now lost original)